Letter-to-sound vs grapheme-to-phoneme

[Yujia S]

Hi! I’m wondering is there difference between these two things? Many thanks.

[Catherine Lai]

Hi Yujia,

Grapheme-to-phoneme is more specific that “sounds” aren’t always the same as phonemes. But in general you can consider them the same thing: in practice both refer to methods to map from written text to pronunciations. You’ll see grapheme-to-phoneme (or g2p) much more often in the recent literature.

cheers,
Catherine

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